Time Capsule lets you bury messages in your codebase that surface automatically when specific conditions like file modifications or code metrics are triggered.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install time-capsule
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install time-capsule using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Time Capsule?
Time Capsule is a developer-centric knowledge preservation tool designed to eliminate the problem of stale documentation. As a standout among Openclaw Skills, it allows engineers to encode institutional knowledge directly into the codebase, ensuring that critical information is delivered exactly when it is needed most. Unlike traditional wikis or comments that are often ignored, these capsules only open when a developer interacts with the relevant code or hits a predefined project milestone.
By using this skill, teams can safeguard their projects against recurring bugs, expensive license expirations, and onboarding friction. It creates a living history of the repository, turning the act of documentation into a dynamic, event-driven experience that enhances the utility of your collection of Openclaw Skills.
Time Capsule Use Cases
- Warning future developers about non-obvious code landmines before they refactor critical modules.
- Onboarding new contributors with welcome messages triggered by their first commit.
- Managing license renewals or deprecation deadlines by setting date-based alerts.
- Enforcing code quality by triggering warnings when test coverage or other metrics drop below a threshold.
- Celebrating project milestones like reaching 1,000 commits or a major version release.
How Time Capsule Works
- The developer identifies a piece of knowledge that needs to be delivered at a specific future moment.
- A trigger is defined, such as a file touch, a specific date, a dependency update, or a code metric threshold.
- The message is buried within the skill's metadata or repository configuration.
- The AI agent, powered by Openclaw Skills, monitors the repository for the specified trigger event.
- When the condition is met, the capsule is opened and the message is displayed prominently to the developer responsible for the trigger.
Time Capsule Setup
To integrate Time Capsule into your workflow, ensure your AI agent is configured to recognize the skill manifest. Since this is one of the zero-dependency Openclaw Skills, you can initialize it within your repository using the following command:
openclaw install time-capsule
Once installed, you can begin burying capsules by prompting your agent with the trigger and the message you wish to preserve.
Time Capsule Data Schema & Taxonomy
Time Capsule organizes its data by mapping specific triggers to message payloads and author metadata. This ensures that every entry in your Openclaw Skills library remains searchable and manageable.
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| trigger_type | The category of event (Date, Threshold, File Touch, etc.) |
| condition | The specific logic or path that unlocks the message |
| message | The Markdown-formatted content to be displayed |
| author | The identifier of the developer who buried the capsule |
| expiry | Optional date to remove the capsule if it remains unopened |
Time Capsule Advanced Features
- Multi-condition triggers that require both a file touch and a date threshold to be met.
- Integration with project metrics to monitor test coverage, TODO counts, or dependency versions.
- Absence tracking to surface knowledge when a file has not been touched for a specified duration.
- Pattern matching to identify and provide guidance on specific code structures as they are written.
- Support for repository milestones to facilitate team retrospectives and celebrations through Openclaw Skills.
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